The Onion's amicus brief to the Supreme Court is a triple threat: masterfully written, draws attention to an important case that could easily skate by unnoticed, and nails the argument.
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A new study shows there is a lot more methane being added to the atmosphere than currently accounted for in any inventories or estimates. And the source is obvious and addressable.
Charles Koch and his billionaire buddies in the Koch Network continue their pattern of trying to tear down our government by funding candidates who tried to turn our country into a dictatorship.
Because of key decisions by the Supreme Court equating money with free speech, our political system is now overrun with grifters, con artists and career criminals.
It is time to rein in the big corporations that are getting away with pushing up prices to fatten their profit margins while families are quite literally paying the price of their profiteering.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington argues there some current and future members of Congress should be disqualified from holding office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
The migrants flown to Martha's Vineyard by DeSantis had actually been pursuing legal immigration channels when they were conned into leaving their shelter. They experienced cruelty here akin to what they fled in their home country.
Racist governors Abbott and DeSantis are not even original in their mistreatment of immigrants. The same cruel scam was perpetrated on black families in the 1960s by the KKK and other racist factions.
As Yvon Chouinard put it in his letter: "Instead of 'going public,' you could say we're 'going purpose.' ...we'll use the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth.
We need more action on legislation that would ban Congressional stock trading. And fewer members of Congress in violation of the rules already on the books.
Military contractors and arms manufacturers and other weapons industry players cash in as Congress adds billions to the Pentagon budget each year.
Facebook and Meta are actively helping mobilize an online army in Brazil that's peddling conspiracy theories about the integrity of the election and threatening a violent coup.
Modern conservatism extols rugged individualism while fashioning a mob of abject conformists who stick like iron filings to the mutterings of their icons.
Trump's continued endorsement and support of January 6th insurrectionists is hopefully being duly noted by the FBI and the staff of the House investigation. Aside from the obvious play at corruption, it is further evidence of his involvement.
If the world halted planet-heating pollution today, the Greenland ice sheet would still lose more than 3% of its mass in the coming decades. To prevent even worse outcomes, immediate climate action is needed.
Environmentalists hailed the proposal as a major improvement over the status quo, under which the EPA has been accused of "doing the bare minimum" to monitor and combat PFAS contamination.